STEREO Science Working Group Meeting No 20 2009

STEREO Science Working Group Meeting No. 20 2009 October 27 - 29 Meredith, New Hampshire

STEREO Level 1 Science Requirements Scientific Objective Measurement Required Causes & mechanisms of CME initiation to 10 minutes Characterize CME propagation Location of initiation to 5° Evolution of mass and longitude extent to within 5° Speed to within 10% Direction to within 5° SEP distribution functions to 10% Mechanisms & sites of energetic particle acceleration Location of particle acceleration to 0. 5 RSun or within 20° Progress Over nnn CME’s observed. Full reconstruction on mm. Many more still to be analyzed. Only 1 CME event this far; nn CIR’s Time series of temp. to 10% 3 -D, time-dependent model of solar wind Time series of density to 10% Time series of speed to 10% Continuous Magnetic field direction to 10° STEREO SWG 20, 2009 October 27 - 29 J. B. Gurman 2

• • • “End of Prime Mission” Review NASA HQ, 2009 November 12 Reviewers likely to include: Hayes, Fisher, Elsbernd, Guhathakurta, Earth Science program exec, budget person(s), one or two others (Jeff? ) They want to see: - a mission overview - the systems and engineering aspects of the operations, and how those may have affected the science - athat. discussion of any foreign partnerships, and issues related to - the science overview, and how we got to the full completion of the Level 1‘s - atoquick financial overview to show that you can get from Prime Extended Phase E, and then - a quick summary. STEREO SWG 20, 2009 October J. B. 27 - 29 Gurman 3

Financial status • All PI teams fully funded at FY 09 level through 2010 January 31 • February 1 - September 30: team funding cut to ~ 75% of FY 09 level • 2010 October 1 and beyond: ~ 50 - 55% of FY 09 level • Contract extensions: in place or nearly so ‣ e. g. IMPACT contract at Goddard legal counsel’s office (penultimate step before award) STEREO SWG 20, 2009 October 27 - 29 J. B. Gurman 4

NASA Travel Fuss update • NASA domestic conference travel no longer limited ‣ But we still have to register conference travel and report • Limit of 50 NASA employees attending foreign meetings remains ‣ Unlikely to affect any STEREO-focused meetings - But don’t expect to see me at IAU or COSPAR STEREO SWG 20, 2009 October 27 - 29 J. B. Gurman 5

New Deputy PI, Co-I’s • Bob Mc. Dowall took over as S/WAVES Deputy PI, on Mike’s retirement • New S/WAVES Co-I’s: ‣ Briand, Issautier, Cecconi, Zouganelis (all at Meudon) • New PLASTIC Co-I’s: ‣ Simunac (UNH), Opitz (CESR), Berger (Kiel) STEREO SWG 20, 2009 October 27 - 29 J. B. Gurman 6

• Solar Physics special issues ‣ First double volume in 2009 May - 28 articles - 23 articles ‣ Second double volume in 2009 October • Publication rate for Eo. PM, senior reviews (bean counting) ‣ 11 in 2007 growing to 121 in first ~10 months of 2009 ‣ Despite security issues in returning database to public access, we are still taking input so please keep sending Alex Young notices of publications STEREO SWG 20, 2009 October 27 - 29 J. B. Gurman 7

Project Scientist • Mike Kaiser: after 45 years of NASA civil service and contractor effort, retired June 3 ‣ Took emeritus position: “just a plain old radio astronomer” working on Cassini, Wind, and STEREO • Joe Gurman: 30 years of NASA civil service and contractor work ‣ 4 months as STEREO project scientist ‣ 17 of the last 24 years as project or mission scientist for one or more missions (SMM, SOHO, TRACE) ‣ Not planning on retiring any time soon STEREO SWG 20, 2009 October 27 - 29 J. B. Gurman 8

Future meetings • SWG 21 ‣ Dublin, Ireland (Trinity College to host) ‣ 2010 March 22 - 26 ‣ Invite local solar and heliospheric community to participate ‣ Peter Gallagher and James Mc. Ateer • Proposal to hold joint STEREO-SOHO SWG and workshop in Kiel in 2011 ‣ Bernd Heber and Berndt Klecker • Frequency ‣ Extended mission, lower travel budgets: one per year enough? STEREO SWG 20, 2009 October 27 - 29 J. B. Gurman 10

Eo. PM review agenda • Thursday, November 12 at NASA HQ • Presentations ‣ Mission overview [15 min] ‣ Systems and engineering aspects of ops [45 min] (Ron) - How did these affect science [10 min] ← Need input ‣ Foreign partnerships [15 min] - Issues? ← Need input ‣ Science overview [10 min] - How did we get to full completion of Level 1 requirements (less 2) • 3 or 4 examples [20 min] ← Need input • 2 counterexamples [5 min] ← Need input ‣ Financial overview [10 min] (SSMO) ‣ [10 min] STEREO SWG 20, 2009 October 27 - 29 Quick summary J. B. Gurman 11